https://www.timrietenbach.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150683077-TVOC3BQ0D2BEHR968X6M/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - The Ghost of Reaganomics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570151613502-GLERT4WM7TJGNAPTJ1HG/Hard+Rain.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain, in progress Borrows its title from the enigmatic Dylan song, this mock beaded curtain is a work in progress. Populated by the heads of people that work for weapons manufacturers. Cross referencing an alphabetical list of companies with a google image search of employees. In its current state it includes the companies from Algeria to Turkey. The US dominates this industry potentially making the finish work triple in size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150683077-TVOC3BQ0D2BEHR968X6M/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - The Ghost of Reaganomics https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570157642252-3M1JGK2I8OI6URUG9F1K/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1588512169795-O4HEWWFCJ7NCAILF16NO/Hard%2BRain.jpg Pandemic https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/5d969b98f66ca103b9f09635/5d969c768de54a6843dd5d47/1793998539225/ Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1793998608785-PINBUL14DOJTVZT27D8D/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150683278-3AS2OM0Q7XQZRG3OQTW9/Detail Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827776709-UMDZL0UEYE5LW8BBNW7N/HardRain.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827831112-74B84JP30TR07OW7UX2U/Rain.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827841164-BXWKIFHRQXA7MAO44FX2/Lungs.jpg Pandemic - Last Breath 18”X18”X8” 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827849583-KZU2CBG8HZH0C592VZM7/Baton1.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980984080-6ZFHNLVME5A5G0JH144A/Business+jpg.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980419431-NR9J53LT5JWT0I19M36U/Business+2.jpeg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794000260334-WQ2M7DC6FQ6FSW3ZM04X/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705978977532-WGNZUOWOAM7NJOYNC2CX/Rock.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705979987525-YE21A833ATLJ1NGPXNG0/Family.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980317918-KLPI588WOXLOI69MI4IN/Rock%2CDetail.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635381225344-VIRTXHWPT3RO9JZVM1MF/6+Pedestal.jpg Pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1793998499467-AMDQE3R65AG546KK3ETZ/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic https://www.timrietenbach.com/past-work-1 daily 0.75 2021-11-01 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/t/617f2e8de74bb74b678ef4e2/1635724913313/ Past Work https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/617f2e1f28e228587360b717/617f2e71e72f1c0cb538a828/1635724913313/ Past Work https://www.timrietenbach.com/pandemic daily 0.75 2026-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148920272-Y5W1P33YCN6RBWA13RTS/Ghost+of+Reaganomics Pandemic - Ghost of Reaganomics 2019 - 15’X 13’X13’ - artificial tree trunk, steel, motor, tack hammer, wire, extension cord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148920272-Y5W1P33YCN6RBWA13RTS/Ghost+of+Reaganomics Pandemic - Ghost of Reaganomics 2019 - 15’X 13’X13’ - artificial tree trunk, steel, motor, tack hammer, wire, extension cord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148920072-LFOL33JU7HRO222K3CQK/Detail Pandemic - Ghost of Reaganomics (detail) The tack hammer is automated by the slowly revolving motor allowing it to tap the tree lightly, the slight vibration animates the branches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794023539462-2QV4QIANRFPIA356JO9X/image-asset.png Pandemic - The Ghost of Reaganomics & Hard Rain Continued Video of details produced by my son Coal Rietenbach representing the two works in exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1588512169795-O4HEWWFCJ7NCAILF16NO/Hard%2BRain.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain in progress 2019 - 15’X12’X2” - photo prints, hot glue, thread - Google searched, screen shot, print, cut into individual heads, a curtain made of the people that work for weapons manufacturing companies worldwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1793998608785-PINBUL14DOJTVZT27D8D/image-asset.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain in progress (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150683678-0Z1DQ6QZAYWO4TD0V6GZ/Detail Pandemic - Hard Rain in progress (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1608928150970-Y6CDAV8Z2MIFHZ2X2Y31/Rain.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain Continues (detail)} https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1607827776709-UMDZL0UEYE5LW8BBNW7N/HardRain.jpg Pandemic - Hard Rain Continues 2019/2020 – 9’X9’ - photo prints - This more densely populated collection is made up of the heads of US weapons manufacturer employees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794246693680-ZLG7NNHV3R2QPOF8F0ZN/2.Punch_Drunk.jpg Pandemic - Punch Drunk 2020 84”X168”X2” - My first attempt at describing the Universe using five pointed stars as positive and negative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980419431-NR9J53LT5JWT0I19M36U/Business+2.jpeg Pandemic - Business 2022 – 16”X17”X3” - Briefcase, color aid paper, matt medium, gun – Businesses/fetish object conceals a gun covered in the same pattern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794000260334-WQ2M7DC6FQ6FSW3ZM04X/IMG_1925+%281%29.jpeg Pandemic - Business (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705978834067-VNRUJWNS9IGRPRUKJO83/image.jpg Pandemic - Family 2023 – 28”X18”X18” - wood, sculptamold, paint, modeling paste, fluorescent ink – Billionaires listed, at the time 2,611 names inked in formal cursive with a quill pen circumventing the rock-like form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705979987525-YE21A833ATLJ1NGPXNG0/Family.jpg Pandemic - Family (right side view) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1705980317918-KLPI588WOXLOI69MI4IN/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - Family (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794002248124-5JEAYZV7DIZWWJO5XJYT/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - Globe 2021 - 18”x18” Two images of the globe off register, printed on opposite sides of transparent plexiglas. An attempt to represent the moment when the world came to a stand still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1608931614366-QNDLFLYGOG59NRXNVPVC/Baton1.jpg Pandemic - Baton 2019 – 32”X5”X5” - dowel rod, enamel paint, toothpicks – Commemorating the moment when Police were beating people protesting police brutality while the virus ravaged, I whittled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794003546472-C350BH94S1YAJ3BVB1F2/image-asset.png Pandemic - Baton (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635381225344-VIRTXHWPT3RO9JZVM1MF/image-asset.jpeg Pandemic - Pedestal 2021 – 60”X16”X16”- Book bag, Plexiglas, Matte medium, photocopy My Book bag worn throughout Trump’s presidency, the lenticular eyes wink. The bag rests on Pence’s distorted head printed on the Pedestal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635644673172-RGO3OS8TX4XU3PVAE5P4/5+last+Breath+copy.jpg Pandemic - Lungs 2022 – 18”X18”X4” - neck pillow, India ink, white chalk paint – During lung cancer treatment the hospital gifted me a neck pillow with a trachea graphic, I stained and layered it with paint. https://www.timrietenbach.com/fake daily 0.75 2026-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164662537-UET3T80LDPBHC962HN3R/8.Signature.jpg Fake - Signature 16”X12”X3” 2018 - A forged version of Trump's signature made with sculpy clay and plaster embedded in a re-purposed frame painted and glittered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164662537-UET3T80LDPBHC962HN3R/8.Signature.jpg Fake - Signature 16”X12”X3” 2018 - A forged version of Trump's signature made with sculpy clay and plaster embedded in a re-purposed frame painted and glittered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150663878-DIQ8PODZDXQL878Q8TPG/scrapbook.jpg Fake - World Book 20”x 11”x 9” 2018 - Pages from a book of world maps, put through several processes then lamented. All the maps have been removed only leaving the blurred language describing the world views. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164354385-OI88FUH9PVD5MWETYXUF/1.Recess.jpg Fake - Recess 6’X4’X5” - 2018 - The entire congressional body, seen here as an act of double erasure. Each politician’s head erased in photoshop, brought together as a group, printed on cloth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150660077-HLAU0UPFKPB4TKE6VP4Z/recess+detail+copy.jpg Fake - Recess (detail) The second act of erasing is disassembling one horizontal thread at a time, leaving only the vertical printed image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570162910310-8T8P97WXXHCP08ZTZ57O/4.Greatness.jpg Fake - Greatness 12’X8’ 2018 - A stylized version of the mainland map made of pegboard. Inspired by a map of the militia locations throughout the country (everywhere). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164515996-EEIDLK43N6HWBKA7L6P7/DSC_0232.jpg Fake - The Red Party 12”X4’X4’ 2018. - 50 re-purposed self-standing photo frames (backing only) normally used to house family photos. Treated as a single color field painting, many layers of paint applied to both sides ending with a red on the front and silver on the back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570163044750-O24GKREA7KN1AF4YNG8W/Investment.jpg Fake - Investment 5’X5’ 2018 - A collection of the logos of the 12 largest world banks reversed and upside down. Painted on transparent Plexiglas, the white paint is on the front face and the color is on the back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150660579-09KDBWU1PDPRVO7EX2E9/the+mean..jpg Fake - The Mean 12”X18” each 2018 - A collection of 21 quotes that have been extracted from a larger quote expressing the viewpoint of the rich and successful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570162174202-JAX4E8TAHXD8JCMUPW1T/Untitled-1.jpg Fake - 11/8/16 8’X20’ 2018 - Acceptance, Depression, Bargaining, Anger, Denial A suit of tombstone shaped paintings that stair step in size with equal measure like Russian dolls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570162436470-EM88N4B9BQBFYJ5Z0PTS/6.jpg Fake - Acceptance 48”X96 - 2018 Each has a familiar op image blown up out of focus that if stair directly into result in a pulsating disturbance and after images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148906972-JVOAELY6LJLBLVFGVL5V/depression.jpg Fake - Depression 40”X88” - 2018 Painting that you should not look into. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148907072-LVG0K3VIAY8C4B2Y2FXX/bargaining.jpg Fake - Bargaining 32”X80” - 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635645282731-JMQFI6WXIK52PJN8N8SV/Anger.jpg Fake - Anger 24”X72” - 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148906772-MVZVWYB78AB6DU2FU96E/denial.jpg Fake - Denial 16”X64” - 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164035844-5II0ASG6XTBO33BT6I7K/Floc+copy.jpg Fake - Floccinaucinihilipilification 6’X6’X1’ 2018 - One of the second largest words in the English language meaning; the estimation of something as worthless, this man’s jacket is made up of then candidate Trump’s most dismissive quotes frequently belittling women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164147965-ARDP5YOF5FNET9OGHX89/Floc.jpg Fake - Floccinaucinihilipilification (detail) Collaged together like a ransom note fully constructed with found text and glue, supported by a steel rod inserted in a concrete block. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570164182317-TC9X0A1KPEJAXFK7DH1V/Screen+Shot+2018-09-19+at+3.48.40+AM.png Fake - Floccinaucinihilipilification (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636150167989-PYWLS76F7ZUX8Z7ZBTW9/DSC_0060+copy.jpg Fake - Citizen United 60”X40”X40” 2018 - A sad tree made of Papier Mache. Day of the dead meets US policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570163730169-URBSOGOKMVANH5CK2ZYY/Screen+Shot+2019-01-26+at+4.47.03+PM.png Fake - 2,864,974 8”X5”X1” 2018 The title is based on the amount of votes that led to Trumps election. Hilary embedded in the wall on a form that is designed to optically allow her face to follow your movement into profile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570163845533-AMSD0UIKEJT6PR4C4HXJ/Screen+Shot+2019-01-26+at+4.47.20+PM.png Fake - 2,864,974 The Right side view, illustrating the illusion of her glance following the viewer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794029639724-NSSLMG2MH0NEHF1GYGIB/image-asset.png Fake Video Documentation by Eric Nass of the solo exhibition at Angela Meleca Gallery in downtown Columbus. A body of work created as a response to the corosive atmosphere of the campaign and election of Donald Trump. https://www.timrietenbach.com/sold-out daily 0.75 2026-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570321282835-HA71Y0L1BGC110WEZUHN/2.US.jpg Sold Out - US 80”X80” 2016 - The world military spending in 2005, each slice represents a country; the largest slice that remains raw canvas is the United States. Geometric Abstraction as a contemporary problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570321282835-HA71Y0L1BGC110WEZUHN/2.US.jpg Sold Out - US 80”X80” 2016 - The world military spending in 2005, each slice represents a country; the largest slice that remains raw canvas is the United States. Geometric Abstraction as a contemporary problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570321993096-N2X8QKVHHNB359A1NXWQ/You.jpg Sold Out - You 9’X7’ 2016 - Appropriated image of our primitive ancestry, a likeness that aids in reconciling our least tolerable motives, while simultaneously representing the advancements in scientific knowledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150695078-KV51MV1HTQLC16Y0QCKW/uploaded-file-20847 Sold Out - Matrix 40”X120” 2016 - A binary translation of the disclaimer for the addiction to gambling found on the Ohio Lottery tickets. The State provides a poor tax at the risks of addiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570322404897-KZWRADHO5Y8T259V6P2J/Jesus.jpg Sold Out - Jesus 13’X6’X3’ 2016 - An enlarged version of a crucifix made by my younger brother Eric shortly before his accidentally death at the age of thirteen. This object has remained a mainstay in my home as a reminder of his absence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1637460562467-7GIYVRD640M36FZG00PM/09_Clock.jpg Sold Out - Clock 12”X12”X2” 2018 - A slice of rough sawn and crudely painted log. The folksy convention in this case has the hands of the clock mechanism replaced by a single bent wire ticking each second in reverse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570323101260-G8QQ5NHVNHSBGSXIGW5O/like.jpg Sold Out - Like 40”X40”X4” 2016 - Representing the age of positive reinforcement as lumber. A less than enthusiastic update on Robert Indiana’s iconic Love sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570323262021-YOORQL10DFQKO8G9RLOG/Self.jpg Sold Out - Self 14”X12”X5” 2016 - A portrait of Ayn Rand resting on a plinth embossed with the names of the fortune 500. The eyes are painted on the backside of the plexiglass and follow the viewer as they navigate the object. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570322251489-V45ILIP8LSLE4EB3WPY1/Brutus.jpg Sold Out - Brutus 22”X20” 2016 - The mascot for OSU football pixelated and made of paint chips. Combining geometric abstraction with the absurd likeness of half man, half nut. Much like any big ten University, football in Columbus is an absurd priority. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570486459722-5XD62F39T9L9IFQ0BQFF/Power.jpg Sold Out - Powers 14”X84” 2009 - Based on “The 48 laws of power” by Robert Greene, a Machiavellian collection of mantras, designed to control and manipulate people from the top down. The books thesis epitomizes the state of our current political and corporate culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636503601768-KO7WJ7R0VKF58Q7FJ1VY/DSC_0024+copy.jpg Sold Out - Powers (detail) Using press type, white out and quill pens I created a family tree with all the limbs sawn off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148928272-PTQMQJWU9A96I8E264CM/uploaded-file-23206 Sold Out - Foundation 5’X6’X7” 2016 - 40 index cards with the language of institutional branding. A mobile pyramid that floats and rotates as the viewers body approaches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794068174228-GT9YLMLO2GZEROAWFBVN/image-asset.jpeg Sold Out - Tradition 5’X3’X1” 2016 - An actual shadow man that you might find in the front yard on a country road, leaning against a tree. My version whittles away at the silhouette of the hillbilly character to present a young black man wearing a hoody, carved on both sides, a policeman’s profile on the opposite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794068252039-35C9YZ1NWSN6HRJXC83V/DSC_0125.jpg Sold Out - Tradition (right side view) The battle for just treatment is pervasive and systemic racism often appears to be as simply as inheritance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148911672-HWAVUP4LQ46H745CJ7U9/uploaded-file-85465 Sold Out - 50 Black Holes 4’X7’ 2018 - Made of re-purposed frames stripped of the previous content leaving only the glass and frame. Densely layered flat white paint obscures the various decorative details on each frame as if consumed by the gallery wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794076404537-W14KF0YHUG6XEG2BV0MO/image-asset.jpeg Sold Out - 50 Black Holes (detail) Black ellipses are painted directly on the backside of the glass allowing them to float superimposed on the wall. A comic variation on the American flag made as a direct response to the decidedly unfunny election results. https://www.timrietenbach.com/gun-show daily 0.75 2026-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/3740ea5f-a7eb-4745-a672-921dc0502979/New+Project.jpg Gun Show - 13 52”X144”X2” 2025 Graphite on shaped canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/3740ea5f-a7eb-4745-a672-921dc0502979/New+Project.jpg Gun Show - 13 52”X144”X2” 2025 Graphite on shaped canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1712355333847-65NINXXG80B5FGUJ04PW/Gun_Show+copy.jpg Gun Show - 1 & 2 42"x32"x2" & 44"x34"x2" 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/90742659-2c26-4eab-8439-674a31f30dcb/03_2728132_Gun1%262_detail.jpg Gun Show - 1 & 2 (side view) Viewed from the left to illustrate the shifting illusion that occurs as the viewer navigates the artworks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1727472343701-97JFDW65M28Q6579DYTS/2521966_Gun5++.jpg Gun Show - 5 46"x58"x2" - Graphite on raw canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/e0dd2f5f-de72-4e29-9030-333995bb856b/2521966_Gun3+.jpg Gun Show - 3 2025 - 60"x64"x2" - Graphite on raw canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/d41bc07a-cdc7-4c63-8316-6c45ed8fcb09/New+Project+copy.jpg Gun Show - 7 2025 - 47"x55"x2" - Graphite on raw canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1727472277528-ZWPK8MGJ3R3H0DAOCL9R/2521966_Gun4++.jpg Gun Show - 4 2025 - 36"x42"x2" - Graphite on raw canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794234421633-6E327VS3G1RRHPYOPCZ8/image-asset.png Gun Show - 11 2025 - 48"x75'"x2" - Graphite on raw canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/85058312-1640-49b2-9578-73560503bff7/2521966_Gun6+.jpg Gun Show - 6 2025 - 48"x60"x2" - Graphite on raw canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/7d206250-5434-4e24-9396-bf4e44da9c91/Gun8.jpg++.jpg Gun Show - 8 2025 - 58"x43"x2" - Graphite on raw canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1727472527227-KRWBHRC3Q06JGYDQRJ43/2521966_Gun10+.jpg Gun Show - 10 50”X52”X2” - 2025 - Graphite on raw canvas https://www.timrietenbach.com/skeletons daily 0.75 2026-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496960765-1IADXH5HXO0ZGD2TDOF4/Gigantic+03%5B1%5D.jpg Skeletons - Gigantic 2003 – 100’ X 25’ X 16f’ - Made of fourteen-gauge wire fence material, suspended in mid air like a puppet. It is a one hundred foot tall anatomically correct human skeleton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496960765-1IADXH5HXO0ZGD2TDOF4/Gigantic+03%5B1%5D.jpg Skeletons - Gigantic 2003 – 100’ X 25’ X 16f’ - Made of fourteen-gauge wire fence material, suspended in mid air like a puppet. It is a one hundred foot tall anatomically correct human skeleton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570497003130-0OAA0KDBTLRTHJW6ZG1N/COSIhand.jpg Skeletons - Gigantic (detail) Each bone is made separately, all topographic and hollow, built like an armature without its skin, a skeletal interpretation of a skeleton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570497049213-E1KM8PRH6G0VEAEK8AAW/COSIfoot.jpg Skeletons - Gigantic (detail)} COSI location https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496985237-YNIE82PJJ0SNONLLX10U/DSCN2107.JPG Skeletons - Gigantic (detail) COSI location https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496767153-KSRFEMUUY53VQBKSH284/7Gigantic+Springfield.jpg Skeletons - Gigantic It was originally installed lying on it’s back trying to escape the confines of the Springfield Museum of Art and now looms over the visitors in our local center of science and industry COSI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496910471-O7IBYBXSXRBSI02Q4K1V/Gigantic+ribcage.jpg Skeletons - Gigantic (Detail) Springfield Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496934887-XVZSUK5PI3829ZKAP4KD/SkullGigantic.jpg Skeletons - Gigantic (detail) Springfield Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636037957723-E807GLLK8EJFDSLRLCH0/Swastika+copy+4+copy.jpg Skeletons - Swastika SWASTIKA – 2001 – 14’X19’X 4” - A drawing that is made of hundreds of hand-drawn human skulls that have their eyes sockets cut out to reveal the ghostly pattern of light and shadow on the wall. The form is suspended off the wall by rusted metal posts and the paper is random sizes that have been oiled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636038709930-7SK4YSCRHMKD8HTJU20I/Swastika.center.jpg Skeletons - Swastika (detail) The weakened cross form is in a clear state of decay; capped by arrows suggesting the continuation of the hatred associated with ethnic cleansing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636038816158-CUIEAU4XF82B99U77VJT/Swastika+arrow.jpg Skeletons - Swastika (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636038965176-LXP0PR6VNO72T7JBKOEJ/SwastikaShadow.jpg Skeletons - Swastika (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001478693-G3QL0C88LIYKFUGV5QES/Headlessness1.jpg Skeletons - Headlessness 2015 - Altered inflatable Snowman parodies the widely accepted yet disturbing sculptural convention of truncating the human form. In this case the form is a decapitated inflatable snowman with severed mittens portrayed in X-ray vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001782309-8LW07VDK5ZLRVZ00O58N/Headlessness3.jpg Skeletons - Headlessness (deflated) Powered by a small fan yet unable to hold itself erect, a hammer attached to the snowman acts as a counterweight floating in mid air as the snowman inflates and deflates the hammer corresponds in a slow motion gesture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635817748735-EFD5HL6GADX5LX8J65FA/Party.jpg Skeletons - THE PARTY 2009 – 4’ X 9’ - floating pile of skulls conceived during the 2008 GOP convention, when the media declared the demise of the Republican Party, this is the 4th version, new balloons are attached to the bottom each time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635818113501-89SQHKC6TBFNTL9MB5G3/%2310PartyDetail.jpg Skeletons - The Party (detail) As the balloons contract the sharpie marker drawing turns to powder, darkening the latex surface. My breath is both the solution and the problem for the lifespan of the piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635903405326-QZ8SMONYOWTIR46TNFNQ/Rietenbach.T_6+copy.jpg Skeletons - Life, a kick ass gang fight A combination of drawing, sewing, laminating and collaging and it represents the internal battle between the skeletal system and its muscles. Self-loathing as an anatomical illustration of fist fighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635903617536-S9JUQPD6OHWMSEAJGK0V/life001.jpg Skeletons - Life, a kick ass gang fight (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635903683999-WW0RFCWBOKIPW3WO7ZN5/8+Evolution+Detail+.jpg Skeletons - Life, a kick ass gang fight (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635903713720-LQ734X6Q1XAMEDLWRPH5/life002.jpg Skeletons - Life, a kick ass gang fight (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635784832791-C9RXKB1DEAHTZVQXSM7U/love..+copy.jpg Skeletons - LOVE 2004 -14”X12”X 4” - This battle was inspired by the stick figure drawings of all three of my sons, each of them at a curious moment in their lives created fantastic landscapes of violence, I can remember doing the same. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635785610305-RL2GH6UXY1WI2TOI3BSP/love003.jpg Skeletons - Love (detail) My approach replaces the stick figures with a more elaborate anatomical version and limits the weaponry to swords. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635785463176-TUMD0CLFYZZHG6HLGZ69/DSCN3034.JPG Skeletons - Love (detail) The image is drawn on the backside of translucent vellum and backed with white paint the only information on the front face is the gauche black environment and the white teeth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635785549178-E54R63DTY4C6GR4SZ2U1/love+detail.jpg Skeletons - Love (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635734006589-WUXZF58EQQ93TZ84HHMY/Rietenbach.T_19+copy.jpg Skeletons - GOING TO HELL 1999 – 15’X15’X10’ - The image of a heart made of one hundred human skeletons suspended on the wall, connected by monofilament guided through a system of eyehooks and activated by fourteen turntables connected to two motion detectors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635734037930-EVMLR53F7W96EKP8K2TB/Helldetail+copy.jpg Skeletons - GOING TO HELL (detail) As a viewer approaches the piece the heart beats as each skeleton begins to dance like a clogging doll, the heart stops after four seconds. As the viewer moves it begins again, as the turntables rotate they create a sound that is rhythmic and correlates with the hearts movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635734056639-94K4HVGIKREB68C1V051/PICT3112+copy.jpg Skeletons - GOING TO HELL (detail) The sound track to “Cabaret” is the only record on a turntable; a needle-less arm scrapes its surface creating an amplified noise. The figures dance at the top and are being dragged down at the bottom where cardboard coffins await their arrival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635732843660-PXU98DTG8WJX79J9ECFT/DSCN8174.JPG Skeletons - Army Man 2009 - Toy army man carved down to a skeletal likeness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148937572-XQYZD87SMWWRY3S8664U/uploaded-file-28235 Skeletons - The Man 2015 - 600 puppets held upright, balanced on thin metal rods designed to allow subtle movement, activated by the air circulating in a busy public Atrium. Held in space by a half round, stair stepping armature, supporting a façade-like reading of a massive pile of skulls (plus necks). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489193699-W04C1U4ZH7MA85L3K5LH/TheManDetail+copy.jpg Skeletons - The Man (detail) Scale shifting throughout the ascending pile from oversized heads in the foreground (2’ tall) to fist sized at the peak helping to amplify the theatrical absurdity of implied space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794171202362-QAS9EJJKYHHAP4CGCH4Z/image-asset.png Skeletons - The Man (detail) The eyeballs are made of deflated balloons and in this image you can see the shifting of the heads due to air currents from the opening of the doors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489760741-WZ2DHAGSOOQZ0MDIH0SX/Screen+Shot+2018-09-07+at+7.22.56+PM.png Skeletons - The Man (detail) The structure holding the pile aloft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496138202-HLTSY8RKLWUEH2ZQ3WR9/Rietenbach.T_10+copy.jpg Skeletons - Praying Hands 2007 – 15’X8’X2’ - Made of seventeen holiday luminaries that have been painted flat black to create an opportunity for the carved image of two skeleton hands. Santa, Easter bunny, snowman and two toy soldiers make up the hands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496487480-HZHU0CDONG2W8ETJQJI6/Praying+hands+angel+detail.jpg Skeletons - Praying Hands (detail) The forms and their positions are used to casually to accommodate the needs of the image of the hands. The hands are graphic and distort as you navigate the piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570496429178-Y2TF7RQPKE3IICPBHXPV/Rietenbach.T_11.jpg Skeletons - Praying Hands (side view) Exhibited in James Voorhies exhibition Consumption Junction adjacent to Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635999481792-2OXPS5UOBZMLD5H5HEK3/Rietenbach.T_8.jpg Skeletons - Skull 2008 5’X5’ - Made out of small dots using several types of markers, the marks have bled in different ways by their reaction to the top coating of epoxy varnish. A Homage to the accidental beauty of the bleeding felt tip marker and a black and white bastardization of pointillism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148933572-TOTA5MRTOLUX2BMWHNVS/uploaded-file-88032 Skeletons - Skull (detail) https://www.timrietenbach.com/politicians daily 0.75 2026-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794245915414-S3XV5HCYANK7PF2FX3R4/DSCN0033.JPG Politicians - The Presidents of the United States 2007 - 30’X9’X 3’ - Made up of forty-two portraits rendered in human hair stuck in the adhesive of packing tape. Layers of tape articulate the Ovals that pay tribute to the tradition of formal and official portraiture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794245915414-S3XV5HCYANK7PF2FX3R4/DSCN0033.JPG Politicians - The Presidents of the United States 2007 - 30’X9’X 3’ - Made up of forty-two portraits rendered in human hair stuck in the adhesive of packing tape. Layers of tape articulate the Ovals that pay tribute to the tradition of formal and official portraiture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018638111-J5QA03HS7P5OUABO5CF3/Pres.Detail3.jpg Politicians - The Presidents of the United States (detail) Each portrait is larger than life and the warmth of the mostly brown and black hair simulates the charm of old fashion engravings. The piece floats in mid air three feet out from the wall allowing for reflected light from the wall to illuminate the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018682546-KH58DW1YDCDOAMF58TG4/Pres.detail5.jpg Politicians - The Presidents of the United States (detail) The piece blends feelings of fondness for antiquity with a visceral repulsion for hair stuck in tape. The more modern the man the less appropriate his likeness seems to conform to this format, aside from their banality they smile too much. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489941875-8818650PMT4JYY2A8M43/Cornography.jpg Politicians - Cornography 7’X22’ 2013 - Made up of the disembodied heads of prominent republican politicians, mostly congress. Suspended in mat medium, eyeless faces stack on the front side of ¼” clear Plexiglas with eyes back painted on the reverse surface allowing their flattened stares to follow your every movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570489981401-8916JFKK0F7RUYZHVU61/c2e08071abc6101b9a40c4fbe9f266c9.jpg Politicians - Cornography (side view) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570490001555-WSOOQ6VUA0OO1OD85YV8/Tim_04.jpg Politicians - Cornography (detail) Front view https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570490029832-KV9SPQY9HFCXE9SZKVVJ/TimRietenbach_03_1994.jpg Politicians - Cornography (detail) Side view to illustrate the eye movement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148923572-ZA69AYFIAF0OE9JW557C/uploaded-file-73538 Politicians - The Sub-Committee 2009 – 5’X12’X1’ - Made of 20 moonshine bottles painted black and filled with water. Each bottle has the image of a distinct clown’s face scratched into the paint on the backside and a round window in the front to allow for viewing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148924972-Z9P7J956HABUC5KNFKTS/uploaded-file-45526 Politicians - The Sub-Committee (detail) The curved shape of the bottle and the water combine to magnify and distort. The heads follow your movement (due to the concave surface) as the weight of the water warps the board that they rest on. The total result is a disturbing smile in the form of a committee of disembodied clowns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794103666625-OMSI5OJ9J7VIVXANJQ7E/image-asset.png Politicians - The Sub-Committee Video illustrating the motion as you move laterally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000621710-918VHSJIMAKYNYRSCXAM/Convention+copy.jpg Politicians - Convention 2004 - 8’X8’X4” - Paying homage to commemorative plates, decoupage, sad clowns and the lost art of flocking. From G.W. to G.W. all the presidents are represented in the form of a large phallus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000778494-GOVAKRIRWM7E4L0CQ3O3/DSCN0314+copy.jpg Politicians - Convention (detail) This piece was made before, during and after both of the most recent party conventions. Each paper plate was dipped in varnish, suspended with thread and collaged with the image of each president altered to appear as the same sad clown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148923072-WXCHDUONL5KF2DYPZQ6R/uploaded-file-20501 Politicians - Convention (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000826413-E5Z6S565XMTOQM22M6HY/Nixon+detail+copy.jpg Politicians - Convention (detail) https://www.timrietenbach.com/odds daily 0.75 2026-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635901857648-6IZ4U4C7C7WXJJYRT9FM/20+Fear+97+copy.jpg Odds - Fear 1997 - 15’x10”x2’ Made of metal wires extending out of a one inch grid of holes in the wall suspending three hundred flicking flame bulbs making up the body of Christ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635901857648-6IZ4U4C7C7WXJJYRT9FM/20+Fear+97+copy.jpg Odds - Fear 1997 - 15’x10”x2’ Made of metal wires extending out of a one inch grid of holes in the wall suspending three hundred flicking flame bulbs making up the body of Christ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000422509-B6VDKW43O6AV9Z9ET42E/Fear...jpg Odds - Fear (side view) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635902002400-WJJKEAU6XO39MZMLJGR0/Feardetail.jpg Odds - Fear (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636000873802-XYMFWAI8TFQ7AISRNLXY/ThisAmericanLife.jpg Odds - This American Life 2011 - 7’x7’ - Made during treatment and recovery for lung cancer. Chemo, radiation and surgery temporarily stripped me of the power to concentrate, fine motor skills and the desire to make art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001176458-F1N6PO2Q9M8CVH1R0YN2/image-asset.jpeg Odds - This American Life (side view) Challenged by my son Sam I began to make a pattern using ruled lines and an ellipse template followed by a gouache painted grey scale, left unrevised and unsealed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001228759-746PMURQMCAE3C4VUGZF/IMG_9322.JPG Odds - This American Life The piece in its entirety represents a year's passing, rebuilding my strength while listening to the archives of the Radio program, “This American Life”. The more therapeutic nature of this piece is marked by its lack of satirical content. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570497261636-LBGJJH0SDZU0WAFX6JK1/Rietenbach.T_9.jpg Odds - Y2K 2009 – 12’ x 16’ - Painted on un-stretched canvas attached to the wall by grommets and hooks, revolving slowly in front of the pupil, acting as a reflection is a tiny disco ball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150668778-BBDBX0TAJ1PT9YE7SGSY/uploaded-file-38261 Odds - Y2K The painting approach draws influence from freak show banners and underground comics and the ball acts as a globe mocking the proportion of exaggerated media attention that the turn of the century garnished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794146960607-AK60KC6MGBISGXD8CS32/image-asset.jpeg Odds - Y2K Brief video detail of the disco ball (stand in for the world) creating the reflection in the pupil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635818265937-MBEG0B55MWJLJSL76FM5/Car4.jpg Odds - Carwash to Bury Tony 2009 dimensions vary, 30 panels of various dimensions covered front and sides with aged pasteboard as the departure point for varied approaches to material. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635818474307-6NJRA4ZSXMB36ZZIIIZ2/image-asset.jpeg Odds - Carwash to bury Tony Named after a poster board sign being held up by giddy teenagers on the side of the street. The non sequester nature of the images reminded me of a life passing before your eyes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148916072-TT0EHT9328WMBKZ948AH/uploaded-file-10038 Odds - Carwash to Bury Tony (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635818458868-D1E0R14Y5YQ479OIJALB/Tony.jpg Odds - Carwash to Bury Tony (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635819899998-1BTMN095TLLOG1K1893H/Tony.....jpg Odds - Carwash to Bury Tony (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635819838085-V6S83OGU56UQRP6O5WFA/M0bbccc468ee5451acfa0cdf84833a8ca-1.JPG Odds - Carwash to Bury Tony (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1635819821756-NLTJFQJR3HQK3TFZBHJU/flames.jpg Odds - Carwash to Bury Tony (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001322051-XG47APZ8T635NF4GPPWF/Home.jpg Odds - Home 2004 - 15’x15’x3” - A painting that was made as a response to the Homeland security color-coded emergency terror alert system post 9/11. I combined the three most urgent colors with depictions of the disembodied heads of action figures from my childhood, characters that were based on TV archetypes representing the cultural priorities of that time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636001409956-Y3RN3UD2GR4ENIT76SZ4/Home.detail2+copy.jpg Odds - Home (detail) The portraits are painted with gloss rust-o-ileum and the glowing fluorescent colors are flat spray paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148933872-62VXNGE8F41ETL00K6KH/uploaded-file-64082 Odds - Home (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150698477-8XKF7MRCJJ4DWLJHXW0N/uploaded-file-42374 Odds - Home (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018204617-RA1C0QKCLG5URNVIUVLI/Emotocon.jpg Odds - Emotican 2010 - 18’ x 9’ x 6’ - Made with 24 rusty paint cans that are relabeled using writing paper and masking tape, and then riddled with rusty nails that ultimately become the rotting teeth of the exaggerated smile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018357121-F7PZMRKSW02TEYF5OK9I/Emoticondetail.jpg Odds - Emotican On each label there is printed affirmation appropriated from various online sources. The yellow circle is painted directly on the wall in the corner; the circle is distorted with the exception of one view directly in front, approximately 20 feet away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1571018377815-28X04VKG1NL6KDNS0Z01/Emotocondetail3.jpg Odds - Emoticon (detail) Mounted on the wall representing the eyes is a security mirror and an old rear view mirror. The smile is too big and the eyes are different resulting in a manic version of happiness and a poke in the eye. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570148931473-R4XJOI7JPH5L8W3ZRE7M/uploaded-file-33687 Odds - Emoticon (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150669078-07KV9YYJ976AONX0J123/uploaded-file-87751 Odds - ARTFORUM: A RE-ENACTMENT WITH SOME EMBELLISHMENT 7’X2’X2’ - 2010 - A frozen moment of an impending collapse. This piece is just as its title suggests an actual event that occurred in my office overnight resulting in a broken Jesus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1570150668878-JR6ZUNSAT2OAT1MGWTBR/uploaded-file-52630 Odds - ARTFORUM: A RE-ENACTMENT WITH SOME EMBELLISHMENT The act of paraphrasing the moment before Jesus hit the floor as my collection of art magazines failed him https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152219466-HRG96R6J1WAASIELH66Z/Empty+sign+copy.jpg Odds - Empty Sign 1996 - 25’ x 100’ x 20’ - Inspired by drawings done by my son Eric when he was a small child. He was a railroad fanatic and one of the symbols that he found at the train yards became a common component in everything he would draw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152305651-9BQQRZXFA48ASDSS7MTA/ESignleft.jpg Odds - Empty Sign The symbol was a two-sided arrow and he used it to connect his name with the things he enjoyed. My version is both homage to Eric and to the abandoned Arrow Signs found throughout the neglected streets of American cities. The process for making them was inspired by children’s Drums made of packing tape stretched on wooden frames. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152532187-PTK88G4SFQEPBHTJYIGA/EmptySignend.jpg Odds - Empty Sign (detail) The wooden frames in this case were made of six layers of luan glued together in distorted bends in order to make all the arrows contort. Stretched with packing tape the surface of one side becomes the support for chandelier fixtures and the interior of each arrow becomes a conduit for the electrical cords. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152467700-AOEWPEPMNL3RUDB5UH48/Feb22-11.jpg Odds - Empty Sign (detail) Each arrow is connected to a motion detector that is set for 4 seconds, as the viewer walks the length of the piece the lights kick on long enough to guide them to the next arrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1636152363621-ZQK2DX77KQ4Z55KN272X/Arrowlit.jpg Odds - Empty Sign (detail) One end of the movement was adjusted to descend to a point that was established by the height of my body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d968d17fa946278b5c1ac11/1794158785661-B6C47XSK7DP0BBDOSQWQ/image-asset.png Odds - Grazing Finding Time: ColumbusPublicArt - 2012 Public works collection honoring the Bicentennial of Columbus Ohio. A small heard of cattle floating on the surface of the Sciota River. 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